[AGA-Contest] Disturbing Technical Difficulties (111)

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

I was going to post this morning when we hit 100, but figured I'd just 
stay on track with the last-thing-before-going-to-bed posts like I've done 
the last few days.  So first off, Yowza!  Hats off to Carlos once again. 
A bit more than 24 hours left, Jeff Senske is uploading his first 
aquascape, and we're getting close to doubling last year's entries. 
Super cool!

This morning I got an e-mail "Major Problems with Website!" from someone 
who couldn't enter an aquascape.  He kept getting an error that he hadn't 
entered the sizes (the only required fields in the entry!).  After calming 
him down (his e-mail: "Let me know when you've fixed the site so I can get 
my entry done!"), and leading him through it on the phone, and doing it 
succesfully myself only to have his browser hit the error, we determined 
that his browser must have something on it clearing all the numerical 
fields (Spyware perhaps?).  Switching to Mozilla/Netscape cleared up the 
problem.  Yikes!

Image formats: Nothing so bad as when someone last year uploaded their 
planting plan in MS Publisher, but I have gotten WORD documents, 
unreadable .bmp files, GIF's, and tonight, .png files.  And the 
unnecessarily-large letterboxing continues.  Bizarre!

Speaking of Senske and image formats, he uploaded a 29-megabyte TIFF 
earlier this evening.  Yes, it worked.

Signing off for tonight (I'm going to add .png detection and conversion 
to the validation/rescale software now),

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
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